In a summer straight out of a science textbook, a group of college students and professors unearthed the partial remains of a ...

Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

The World Heritage Committee has inscribed 26 new sites from various countries, including India's 'Maratha Military Landscape ...

And every volcanic eruption releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, triggering a gnarly environmental feedback loop.

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If large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...

Experts are going to dramatic lengths to protect Swiss glaciers from climate change.

Startling photos show the alarming extent of melting Swiss glaciers The Alps were covered with ice 20,000 years ago, but no more.

Glacial melting isn't just an environmental issue — it has very real, immediate consequences for our communities.

During Earth’s ancient global glaciation, known as “Snowball Earth,” scientists propose that life may have survived in meltwater ponds scattered atop the icy surface. Credit: Shutterstock Modern-day ...

RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland (AP) — Climate change appears to be making some of Switzerland's vaunted glaciers look like Swiss cheese: full of holes. Matthias Huss of the glacier monitoring group GLAMOS ...

From the Canadian Rockies to the Swiss Alps, the acceleration of glacial melt is “falling off a cliff” due to warm, dry conditions and the phenomenon of glacial darkening.